*Bob*

Stats are great, but it's not all about the stats. It's about what feel right and wrong - or at least what ought to feel right and wrong. Would you want your child to go to a school where some of the teachers were armed and classes practiced 'lockdown drill'? Would that seem reasonable, or would something in the back of your mind (or hopefully the front of it) be saying 'this feels a bit wrong'?

As opposed to CAN soundtracks.

Oh I see - CAN 'Soundtracks'.

Isn't that 'one song that happens to be in a few films' rather than a movie soundtrack? (I would have liked there to be a film with a CAN soundtrack though!)

Guns can be exciting, fascinating and cool though - as well as monstrous, can't they? It would be disingenuous to pretend otherwise when half the entertainment industry somewhat relies on them for the fireworks that powers our suspended-disbelief fun. If you can't get enough of seeing Bruce Schwarzenegger, Private Ryan or The Corleones tooling-up to face their adversaries (choose your type of fix) then it's not so hard to see how popping-off a few caps of your own might be a rush - if it just happened to be readily available. And if you enjoy that, you might as well pick your own hardware. We're quick to draw the line here in the uk - but in reality it's only a line that (over in the US) continues to a natural, unfettered, poorly-regulated conclusion.

CAN? Which movie soundtracks were those?

Always. I believe most people are quite sane on these matters. But sooner or later, every thread is highjacked and escalated by the relatively small number of people who either want to take a flamethrower to the Moxons queue - or fumigate Iceland.

I suspect in The Olde Days the 'help' were mostly occupied by the physical requirements of writing out the scores neatly, making corrections and additions - and then making copies - not being given a topline and some chords - and being asked to fill-in the orchestra!

Don't see what's wrong with a bit of NIMBYism. I mean - I need to go to the tip sometimes as well, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to look at it.

I dunno.. did they?

So it does seem rather like everybody has what they want. You can go to a local indie. You can go to a local supermarket. You can shop online. Everyone's a winner. I'd suggest though that there's a much (as you say) 'contempt' for darling locals indies (and users thereof) on here as there is for the supermarket brigade.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you heard the original score which Kubrick > scrapped? It's available on CD... but it's hard to > imagine 2001 without the classical soundtrack... I know the story about it, but not the music itself. The iconic classical contributions hog the limelight re 2001 but - as I say - it's really hard to appreciate how good the rest of it sounds without a decent cinematic experience.

Dirty Harry.. Bullit.. Lalo Schifrin! Definitely a favourite. Some of the twisted, freaky synth stuff he did on the early Columbos is worth listening-out for.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Favourite score 'Inception' or just about anything > by Hans Zimmer. Like the score from 'Dances With > Wolves' too. Zimmer has been the busiest of boys, on paper. He farms a lot of the donkey work out his drones though. By all accounts - noting a basic tune down and handing it to someone else saying 'score that for me, would you?' is a regular occurrence. The 'Zimmer Score' that impressed me the most was The Thin Red Line, I think. I'd nominate a couple of Kubricks: The Shining has a great score / soundtrack. 2001 is my all-time fave though: if you get a chance to see/hear it in a good auditorium (I went to the BFI) the whole thing - just sounds amazing.. especially the silence.

Pretty good. Workin' on the dubstep mix right now.

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LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree Chillaxed. My in-laws, who are on a very > tight budget, pretty much rely on the chains a lot > of these posters show so much contempt for to make > ends meet. Also, they are old enough to remember > the days when you had to buy everything separately > from small shops. They aren't so nostalgic about > its charm. I find this an odd argument. If you love supermarkets, every single one will deliver (most of them for free) to your doorstep. You've never had it so good - take your pick! And there are very few good reasons left these days why anyone one budget - and interested in staying on it - couldn't get internetted-up with very little money. Perhaps five or ten years ago, but not now. Or take the short trip to anyone of the giant supermarkets nearby. Conversely, if you hate trudging around small shops on account of the above, why should you even care what's in them? Or who goes in them? Or how much things cost in them?

Yeah.. END OF Back to fascinating 51nd page of M&S, bottles of piss - and other such treats.

What is this pig of a thread? Soundtrack or score, goddammit?!

On balance - and despite a few noteworthy closures (RIP I-72) there's more here we actually use than there was when we arrived. Lots of properly interesting joints springing-up in adjacent areas too. Nothing to cry about really.. For the present.

I was thinking about this today. Circumstantially, none of these places are/were places we regularly spent time and money in, despite having money to spend. It was nice having them, but we rarely went in. I think Green & Blue is a case in point. I (and I suspect many others) liked the idea of the place more than we we actually patronised it. Going in there for an occasional treat wasn't going to keep the rent paid. Conversely, the ones we used all the time, such as The Cheese Block, SMBS & Rose.. Still look healthy. All circumstantial as I say, but whilst 'use it or lose it' applies, it has to be something enough people - and lots of them - want to use.

This was a copycat killing, was it not?

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (wipes tear from eye, shortly before user is deleted)

I simply can't wait for the next side-splitting amusement!!!!!!!!! (lol, lmfao etc etc)

None whatsoever. Have you looked in Catford?